1. A giant planet undergoing extreme-ultraviolet irradiation by its hot massive-star host
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Gaudi, B. Scott, Stassun, Keivan G., Collins, Karen A., Beatty, Thomas G., Zhou, George, Latham, David W., Bieryla, Allyson, Eastman, Jason D., Siverd, Robert J., Crepp, Justin R., Gonzales, Erica J., Stevens, Daniel J., Buchhave, Lars A., Pepper, Joshua, Johnson, Marshall C., Colon, Knicole D., Jensen, Eric L. N., Rodriguez, Joseph E., Bozza, Valerio, Novati, Sebastiano Calchi, D’Ago, Giuseppe, Dumont, Mary T., Ellis, Tyler, Gaillard, Clement, Jang-Condell, Hannah, Kasper, David H., Fukui, Akihiko, Gregorio, Joao, Ito, Ayaka, Kielkopf, John F., Manner, Mark, Matt, Kyle, Narita, Norio, Oberst, Thomas E., Reed, Phillip A., Scarpetta, Gaetano, Stephens, Denice C., Yeigh, Rex R., Zambelli, Roberto, Fulton, B. J., Howard, Andrew W., James, David J., Penny, Matthew, Bayliss, Daniel, Curtis, Ivan A., DePoy, D. L., Esquerdo, Gilbert A., Gould, Andrew, Joner, Michael D., Kuhn, Rudolf B., Labadie-Bartz, Jonathan, Lund, Michael B., Marshall, Jennifer L., McLeod, Kim K., Pogge, Richard W., Relles, Howard, Stockdale, Christopher, Tan, T. G., Trueblood, Mark, and Trueblood, Patricia
- Abstract
The giant planet KELT-9b has a dayside temperature of about 4,600 K, which is sufficiently high to dissociate molecules and to evaporate its atmosphere, owing to its hot stellar host.
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- 2017
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